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Digital media firm RealNetworks Inc. said Thursday that it swung to a third-quarter profit as revenue rose 20% year-over-year ... TV station group Hearst-Argyle Television said that its third-quarter profit fell 62% compared with the year-ago quarter ... Video game maker THQ Inc. reported a narrower fiscal second-quarter loss as revenue jumped 48% because of titles like alien action game Destroy All Humans.

Fox Broadcasting Co. has acquired the rights to develop THQ's best-selling sci-fi video game Destroy All Humans into a half-hour CGI-animated comedy by former King of the Hill writer/co-executive producer Jim Dauterive. The deal marks the first time a video game will be used as the basis for a primetime network television program. The script will be developed through 20th Century Fox TV, where Dauterive has an overall deal. Set in the 1950s, the third-person action game puts players into the bulbous gray head of Crypto 137, an alien who has landed on Earth and is intent on destroying it. The game takes a comic approach and spoofs '50s Hollywood B-movies. "The goal is to make the show as good and as funny as the video game," Dauterive said.